how to use print both as a function and a variable in one program

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I have used print to store value like:

print=3

After then I am not able to use it to print any message:

print('a message')

Its giving error:

'int object is not callable'

Is there any way to use print both as a variable and a functions? If not then Why not python just makes built-in function names as keyword to remove this conflict?

yeah very usefull as this hits me that its executing axactly same as when we assign a different value to a variable. thanx — Rishabh, Nov 20 '16 at 19:17
one more thing, as this reassigning of builtin function is making conflict why not python makes them as reserved? — Rishabh, Nov 20 '16 at 19:20
see http://python-history.blogspot.nl/2013/11/story-of-none-true-false.html; because built-ins contains a large number of names, it is often fine to shadow them and it would hurt forward compatibility. — Martijn Pieters, Nov 20 '16 at 19:25

Charles Duffy · Answer 1 · 2016-11-20T17:53:01.463

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Functions and data share the same namespace in Python -- as they do in many other languages (the entire family of LISP-1s comes to mind first, including Scheme and Clojure; also Ruby, Groovy, and I'm sure many more).

Thus no, you cannot do this. Widely available checkers (pylint, pychecker, etc) will catch and report on attempts to shadow builtins (such as print) with data.

edited Nov 20 '16 at 17:53

answered Nov 20 '16 at 17:46

Charles Duffy

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thanks for the answer @charles Duffy – Rishabh Nov 20 '16 at 18:23

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